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When your customer experience outgrows your decision-making

As products succeed and demand grows, a once simple and manageable customer experience and product gets more complex. With that, the number of decisions that matter multiplies fast. Scaling decision-making becomes necessary, to keep up.

by Mathias Holmgren

Monday, October 26, 2026

The New CEO Test

Would your transformation survive a change at the top? In this article we highlight what make transformations last, and give you a test you can use right now to find out where you stand.

by Mathias Holmgren

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

GUIDE - Map opportunities and solutions, to drive outcomes (How to use an OST)

This can be a great tool to help a team transition from a feature team to a problem solving team (product team). But it is also a tool that I have frequently seen misused in the field. In this article I explain how to understand and use an opportunity solution tree the right way - in a field tested way that has been validated to work with real teams that have successfully made this transition.

by Mathias Holmgren

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Thinking of your OKRs as newspaper articles

This article shares a metaphor for how to give work to a team in the form of an OKR. Similarly to how a news paper article needs a well researched rich body of article text that offers data and meaning, as well as a clear title that fairly represents that article body - in the same way both product leaders and product team needs to see their problem to solve and success metrics in a similar way.

by Mathias Holmgren

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Product Transformation - Create and align on your transformation vision

When transforming to the product operating model a powerful early step is to develop a clear transformation vision. This is what will offer the needed energy, staying power needed to persist over time. Your transformation vision will help you and your senior colleagues align on both the direction and why this change is needed, in a way that will set you up for strong communication

by Mathias Holmgren

Monday, October 6, 2025

Product Transformation - Creating Products Collaboratively

This article explains how transforming to the product operating model relates to the concept of multi-disciplinary collaboration to create products by solving customer problems.

by Mathias Holmgren

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Product Transformation - Solve problems to drive results

This article relates to how transforming to the product operating model relates to integrating the idea of giving work to teams in the form of a problem to solve, because that is what will allow individual teams to drive real results, which will allow our whole procuct organization to be outcome focused.

by Mathias Holmgren

Friday, May 9, 2025

Product Transformation - Integrating the idea of Product Risk

This article relates to how transforming to the product operating model relates to integrating the idea of managing product risk as early as possible, and how this is a deeper leverage idea than most companies attempting this transition may realize.

by Mathias Holmgren

Friday, May 2, 2025

Product Transformation - Creating the Right Alliance for Change

This article covers what you need to consider to set up the right alliance for change, before starting a product transformation. It explains why having the right alliance matters, and what you need to look for to know who the right people are to have on board.

by Mathias Holmgren

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Product Transformation: Identifying your drivers and leverage

This article explores the concept of transformation drivers. They are the highest leverage reasons for why we “can’t just stay the same” and expect to be successful.

by Mathias Holmgren

Monday, December 2, 2024

Leading Change - Taking the hit

Introduces a difficult part of being a senior leader, the willingness to make hard decisions that come at a personal cost for yourself as well as others involved.

by Mathias Holmgren

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Leading Change - Acting on problems

Introduces one key foundational mindset for leading change - the willingness to act on problems.

by Mathias Holmgren

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

My First Product Failure - Pt 2

Part two of my first product failure. In this article I elaborate on why I think we failed our attempt at building a new capital markets portfolio product.

by Mathias Holmgren

Friday, October 18, 2024

My First Product Failure - Pt 1

I tell the story of my first product failure where we failed building a new capital markets portfolio product. This is part one of a two part series.

by Mathias Holmgren

Thursday, October 17, 2024

How to transform to Empowered Product Teams - FAQ #4

What can I do to help my team practice discovery? I understand it for customer experience facing teams, but my team is an enabling platform team. What can we do?

by Mathias Holmgren

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

How to transform to Empowered Product Teams – FAQ #3

For years now our technical architecture and platform have limited us to use component teams. We are excited by empowered product teams, but because of this setup we experience barriers to getting started. What can we do to change this?

by Mathias Holmgren

Thursday, November 2, 2023

How to transform to Empowered Product Teams – FAQ #2

What is the best way to get customers and empowered teams closer so they could understand each other? And keep up with it so it is not a one time thing.

by Mathias Holmgren

Friday, September 22, 2023

How to transform to Empowered Product Teams – FAQ #1

Most organizations that I meet in my work are struggling to integrate product discovery and agile delivery in a simple practical way that works.

by Mathias Holmgren

Friday, May 26, 2023

Advice to become ready for a transformation

How to prepare and align as a leadership team for a major change in your organization

by Mathias Holmgren

Friday, October 7, 2022

Integrating Discovery & Delivery – Patterns that work

This is the second article in my series on integrating discovery and delivery. In the first article I outlined some common challenges I have seen holding organizations back from benefiting fully from both.

by Mathias Holmgren

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Integrating Discovery & Delivery – Common Challenges

Most organizations that I meet in my work are struggling to integrate product discovery and agile delivery in a simple practical way that works.

by Mathias Holmgren

Monday, August 24, 2020

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